PubMed, writing and research.

PubMed, writing and research.

Jankharia B. PubMed, writing and research. Indian J Radiol Imaging 2009;19:255 The IJRI has been included in PubMed in the month of September 2009 and now has all issues of 2009. In this article the editor shares this news with readers (it is after all an achievement!) More importantly he…
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Scientific writing: The Indian scenario.

Scientific writing: The Indian scenario.

Sivapathasundharam B. Scientific writing: The Indian scenario.  Indian Journal of Dental Research 2008;19:87. This is an Editorial and the editor highlights the urgent need for Indian authors to write in Indian journals, the need to improve quality and the need to reduce document overload by reducing submission of unnecessary "repeated research".…
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Plagiarism Checker

Plagiarism Checker

Free Online Plagiarism checker. The word "Plagiarism" keeps surfacing every now and then, in several contexts. We know that in the simplest sense it means "copying". But when we sit down to write an article several doubts come up. "If I reference whatever I have copied, does that constitute plagiarism"?…
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Retraction of an article

Retraction of an article

Off and on we come across papers that have been "retracted" from a journal. What is retraction and why does it happen? A retraction of a published article means that the author/journal wishes to "take it back". In other words they indicate that the article should not have been published,…
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